Exploring love and learning, loss and renewal, 'Year Of Wonders' succeeds as a spellbinding work of historical fiction and an unforgettable read.
Written with stunning emotional intelligence, Brooks's novel examines the collision of faith, science, and superstition at the cusp of the modern era. Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged mountain spine of England, 'Year Of Wonders' is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. As she struggles to survive, a year of plague becomes, instead, "annus mirabilis", a "year of wonders". When villagers turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting, Anna must confront the deaths of family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit love. Convinced by a visionary minister, they elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundaries to arrest the spread of the disease.īut as death reaches into every household, faith frays. Through Anna's eyes, we follow the story of the plague year, 1666, as her fellow villagers make an extraordinary choice. In Geraldine Brooks novel, Year of Wonders, Anna Frith tells her story of the terrible plague in her hometown of Eyam in 1666. Geraldine is the daughter of Gloria and Lawrie Brooks her mum is a public relations officer with radio station 2GB, her old man was a singer with the George Trevare Orchestra. When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Pablo Neruda once called Gabriel Garca Mrquezs 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Discussion Guide Penguin Random House Audio Discussion Guide Year of Wonders No guide available. Meet Geraldine Like her beloved husband, Geraldine is a journalist and a novelist she was born on September 14, 1955, in Sydney, New South Wales in Australia.
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